Fat Sculpture

Fat David is popping up just about everywhere online and soon will be (if it isn’t already) a hot seller on T-shirts. Here’s the point of the blubbery makeover from the blog, Away with Words: Michelangelo’s famous statue, David, returns to Italy this week after a successful 12 week, 20 city, U.S. tour.

In other words, Americans are beached whales. Land on their soil, and you, too, will begin to bloat. Using art to make that point is pretty funny, however, because fat is just fine in art. (See “A substance shunned in life“)